Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

@alyx@cybre.space huh, there are two of me now. not sure what I think about this yet. what kind of mischief are you gonna get up to

hm, considering an account on cybre.space maybe?

won the 2nd round of Pandemic Legacy with @Ulfra_Wolfe and friends, holy shit, feels good after getting creamed in round 1. @TipsyTentacle kicked in much-needed help at the crucial moment!

so, @kel, one time my lab partner leaned over to me and asked me, Al, you got any sodium hypobromite? You know what I had to tell him? "Na, BrO"

so #mastodon #programming question...what's the most painless way to start working on bots? I've been wanting to poke at some ideas for making robot pals around here, but the unfamiliarity barrier is kinda intimidating. Anyone abstracted away all the nasty stuff into a package I can use with a programming language I actually like, like C#? (Lisp or Rust would be even better but I'm not asking for miracles)

hey folks, what's up on computerfairi.es

gee if there were a Mastodon instance specific to chemistry I'd be _so_ there

we're gonna be doing a more or less modernistic setting with a dash of urban fantasy, and I created a young science / engineering whiz kid who's been in trouble with the law and ran away from home. Named her Julia Grignard. (yes I named her after the organic chemist. I name all my OCs after organic chemists.)

So, @Ulfra_Wolfe and her friends have been giving me my FIRST EVER introduction to role-playing games, and walked me through creating a character! Folks have been kinda surprised in the past that I've never done anything like DnD or even played any computer RPGs, even though I grew up right around when DnD was a big deal. I just...well, wasn't really allowed to have that sort of friend *eardroops* So it's exciting finally to get a chance.

so, since it turns out I'm actually a _girl_ horse, does that mean I can wear a panama hat now? my putatively-male predecessor wanted to affect a panama hat like Hidaro Shotaro from "Kamen Rider W" (pictured) but my girlfriend said "absolutely not"--and still says it :( https://computerfairi.es/media/Ax0zu0eBS6jNssmMbS8

looks like Radio Shack is finally about to get pulled off life support. can't say I'm gonna cry over it even though I have some fond Radio Shack memories ^^ https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/5/25/15691868/radioshack-closing-bankrupt-twitter-sad

So, I'm gonna ask a dumb #programming question: if you want to have FUN with creating applications and don't care too much about what you're using or how "objectively" good it is, what do y'all like to use? one of my problems is I haven't really had _fun_ programming for a long while, probably not since BeOS rose and fell. Unity was a _little_ fun maybe.

oh, and then I was a registered BeOS developer for a time. Poor, poor BeOS. *chuckles, a bit shamefaced* I do miss BeOS still but it was never gonna succeed. That was about the last time I enjoyed #programming, in the late '90s. since then my experience has been very sporadic. I did succeed in liking C# in Unity (as long as I didn't try to use Unity's editor to do, well, anything) and I poked at Python (hated it) and Rust (liked it better). So, not sure where to start now!